BILL NUMBER: SB 974	CHAPTERED  09/20/06

	CHAPTER  370
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 20, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 20, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 30, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  APRIL 11, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Environmental Quality (Senators
Lowenthal (Chair), Campbell, Chesbro, Cox, Escutia, Figueroa, Kuehl,
Runner, and Simitian)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

   An act to repeal Section 21080.08 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 974, Committee on Environmental Quality  CEQA: exemption: rural
infrastructure economic development projects.
   The existing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires
a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared by
contract, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact
report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or
approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, or to
adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not
have that effect. CEQA exempts from its provisions any activity or
approval necessary for, or incidental to, project funding, or the
authorization for the expenditure of funds for the project, by the
Rural Economic Development Infrastructure Panel, as provided. The
provisions of law establishing that panel were repealed by Chapter
229 of the Statutes of 2003.
   This bill would repeal those provisions relating to that exemption
under CEQA.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 21080.08 of the Public Resources Code is
repealed.